Improvement in beer-coolers



H. VOIGT.L Beer-Cooler.

No. 196,956. Patented Nov 6, 1877.

N-FETEHS, FHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER, WSHINGTON. D C.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HERMANN VOIGT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

. IMPROVEMENT IN BEER-COOLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,956, dated November 6, 1877; application led May 5, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN Voler, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer Coolers, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention relates to that class of beer-coolers used for keeping the wort at the right temperature during the fermenting process, and it consists of a floating sheetmetal pan, stiifened by iron hoops secured around its body, and in a rubber hose connecting its bottom with a screw-valve placed through the wall of the fermentation-tub, for drawing off' the water as the ice is melting.

Figure l is a perspective view of the cooler complete. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the pan, and Fig. 3 is a similar section of the water-outlet valve.

A is the oating pan, of a half -spherical shape, made of sheet metal, and stiifened by a series of iron hoops, a, made of half -round iron, and secured latitudinally uponthe eXterior surface of the pan, where they are covered by strips of sheet metal swaged to the required shape. The top edge of the panA is stiifened by an interior hoop, a', and the bottom by a triangular cup, B. The pipe G, which starts from the bottom of the pan, ends with a screw-threaded swell, c, for the coupling of hose D.

E is the faucet, consisting of the hollow stem e and its cup-shaped heade. The stem e is passed through a hole bored into the wall of the fermentation-tub, and is secured therein by a nut, f, matching the screw-thread of the stem. The cup e' is internally screwthreaded, so as to receive a thumb screw, G, having a recess 1n its end for holding a rubend, so as to form the connection between the floating pan A and the faucet E. This floating pan A has the stiffening-hoops c on its exterior surface, and its interior surface is smooth, so that the ice in melting will steadily fall to the bottom.

The pan being coupled to the wall of the tub by means of hose D, it is more apt to stay in the center of the tub and not iioat about, and will be very economical in the use of icc, since the ice can be kept free of Water by means of the faucet E.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The iioating pan A, stiffened by exterior hoops a, and having pipe C, all constructed substantially as described and shown.

2. A beer-cooler, for the purpose described, consisting of the floating' pan A, the rubber hose D, and the faucet E, all arranged as shown and specified.

3. The faucet E, constructed substantially as described, in combination with the floating pan A and hose-connectionvD, as and for the purpose set forth.

HERMANN VOIGT. Witnesses:

FRITZ HAERTIG, WM. H. LoTz. 

